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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Cyndi Mills/BBN
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- Minutes of the Internet Accounting Working Group (ACCT)
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- Document Status
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- o Internet Accounting Background: published as an RFC in November
- 1991.
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- o Internet Accounting Architecture: needs some clarification,
- otherwise it is ready for security review and publication as an
- RFC.
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- o Internet Accounting MIB: simplifications needed, not ready for
- publication as MIB yet.
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- The University of Auckland is implementing the MIB and will report on
- their progress at the next IETF. Nevil Brownlee submitted several
- suggested modifications which require clarification on the mailing list.
- It was agreed that the MIB will be published as an Experimental MIB in
- the hope that network management protocols will improve sufficiently in
- the next year to provide a better basis for a standard accounting MIB.
- In particular, bulk transfer and the reporting of data in traps are
- desirable.
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- A second implementation is needed. It was suggested that we solicit
- support from FARNET, publish an article in the Simple Times, and give a
- plenary technical presentation at the next IETF.
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- Semyan Dukach of MIT gave a brief presentation on has work on
- application-level billing protocols.
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- Future Direction
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- The Internet Accounting Working Group plans to hold its last active
- meeting in November, since with the publication of the three documents
- it has fulfilled its Charter. At that meeting the final recommendation
- to the IESG for the status (e.g., Draft Standard or Experimental) of the
- architecture and the MIB will be made. Any further activity after that
- will take place on the mailing list.
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- Possible future directions for future working groups include:
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- o Implementor's Working Group to improve SNMP MIB.
- o SMP and/or SNMP over TCP/IP implementation.
- o Application-level accounting extensions.
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- o Exploration of Tariffs for the Internet.
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- Attendees
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- George Abe abe@infonet.com
- Steve Bostock steveb@novell.com
- Scott Cossette sdc@concord.com
- Fred Engel engel@concord.com
- Michael Erlinger mike@lexcel.com
- Kathryn Fuller kathryn@codex.com
- Owen Gallagher oweng@jjmhome.uucp
- Pria Graves priag@nsd.3com.com
- J. Scott Marcus smarcus@bbn.com
- John McKenna mckenna@ralvm12.vnet.ibm.com
- Cyndi Mills cmills@nnsc.nsf.net
- Clifford Neuman bcn@isi.edu
- Bob Page bob.page@eng.sun.com
- John Payne jop@wang.com
- David Perkins dperkins@synoptics.com
- Ed Reeder EREEDER@ralvm12.vnet.ibm.com
- Kary Robertson kr@concord.com
- Allan Rubens acr@merit.edu
- Gregory Ruth gruth@bbn.com
- Michael Sapich sapich@conware.de
- Robert Shirey shirey@mitre.org
- Chris Thomas chris_thomas@ccm.hf.intel.com
- Curtis Villamizar curtis@ans.net
- John Vollbrecht jrv@merit.edu
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